The centerpiece of the No Man’s Sky Foundation Update is the base building. Players can now create their own base by finding an uninhabited building. Players will be able to recruit alien lifeforms for new technologies.

Normal mode is the “original chilled exploration experience”. Creative Mode ” allows players to explore the universe without limits, and build a huge base” and Survival Mode will really challenge the players by “creating a much more challenging endurance experience”.

With No Man’s Sky Foundation Update, players will also be able to farm Cultivate biome-dependent crops inside or outside of their base. Plants will grow over time and will provide a steady supply of resources. “Hire a farming specialist to research and grow ten new plant types, and discover new resource elements”.

No Man’s Sky Foundation Update also brings FREIGHTERS that can be purchased by players and can be summoned from anywhere in the Galaxy. Using freighters players can teleport their resources while being on the planet.

With base building players can also customize their freighters and can extend their cargo hold to expand the capacity. Check out the full list of No Man’s Sky Foundation Update changes and fixes below.

Gameplay

Fixed technology becoming instantly fully charged when repaired

Fixed ship appearing on incorrect pad in space station after loading

Added interactable objects that required certain tech to collect

Added shootable objects that require certain tech to mine

Rebalanced resource availability and technology charge requirements

Fixed initial game flow – where travelling to space too quickly after visiting the monolith could prevent the first atlas station notification appearing

Prevented player being prompted to scan for buildings before leaving the system after visiting the monolith

Prevented laser and melee attacks while in space from attempting to edit terrain

Fixed occasional rendering errors due to precision on cockpit during warp

Fixed pulse lines not appearing when pulse driving out from planet atmosphere

Fixed shadowing artefacts on imposters

Space

Improved asteroids to allow much denser fields

Improved explosion effects

Fixed scale of moons on the space map

Added freighter groups to the space map

Changed distribution of resources in asteroids

AI ships will now clear asteroids in their path

Planets are now scannable from space to see their resources

Space Combat

Fixed bounty targets warping out too soon

Improved HUD indicators in space combat

Added damaged ship effect on AI starships

Added formation flying

Improved locking on passive starships

Improved AI combat flight patterns

Added new ship weapon technology

Holding brake whilst turning now activates drift for fast turns

Improved AI ship freighter attacking

Improved freighter targeting code when under attack by enemy ships

Freighters

Fixed pulse drive to prevent travel through freighters

Improved docking code

Added hangar to the lead freighter

Added docking in freighters

Added icon to accessible freighter hangars

Added colouring to cargo drops to identify what is in them

You can now only pick up cargo drops that will fit in your inventory

Added auxiliary freight ships to freighter groups

Added alert lights and alarm audio for when freighters are in combat

Improved turret lights and explosions

Improved muzzle flashes on freighter turrets

Added indicator of cargo contents

Freighter Commanders now give rewards for rescuing them from pirate attack

Fixed collision on freighter cargo containers

Audio

Updated the lush ambience to make the wind sounds less noisy

Ambient background fauna now checks for the presence of creatures

Added rain on foliage

Added rain on ship

Added freighter specific footsteps

When on a dead planet, no music will play

Round table prop now plays an appropriate sound

Added more music to the loading sequence and game start

Added audio to new base building props

Created sounds for new base building props

Added audio to freighter doors and internal freighter ambiences

Added freighter explosions

Added freighter alarm

Added ambient radio comms when approaching a freighter

Fixed missing sounds when in a space station due to the mix settings

Multi-tool upgrades now affect audio

Lots of minor mix changes

Changed some compression settings for PS4 audio to make the sub-channel audio play more reliably

That is not all, Hello Games has announced that No Man’s Sky Foundation Update will be building the foundation for the things to come. The studio has also announced that No Man’s Sky Foundation Update is first of the many free updates.

No Man’s Sky is a first-person space exploration game developed by Hello Games for PC and PlayStation 4.